Now, for the first time, scientists have found a frog that gives birth to something in between: live, wriggling tadpoles...

The Nicaragua Canal is expected to take five years to complete and cost fifty billion dollars; when finished (if it is ever finished), the hundred-and-seventy-two-mile canal will bisect Nicaragua from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...

Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new...

The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can't win...

Garry Trudeau says that Rolling Stone's 'flaws' didn't change point of Sunday's comic...

As Turkey's president restricts free speech and ignores domestic violence, the country's businesswomen are pushing back...

Coming Soon To A State Near You! If you've been following the news lately, you may have noticed a recurring theme...

It's the bird that enabled human civilization, Andrew Lawler argues in his new book, Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? Is it also the key to saving a crowded planet?...

When it's not the holiday posterplant, mistletoe spends its day sucking the life out of trees worldwide...

2014 was a bad year for politics but a great year for poetry; you could argue that it was the year that Modernism hit its stride...